Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Physicist Enrico Fermi, Chicago Nobel Prizewinner who started the first nuclear chain reaction, said last week: "I know of nothing that can be developed into a radioactive cloud without the bomb." Other physicists in a position to know preferred to keep their mouths shut...
Charmer's Charm. The Sheraton Corp. of America hotel chain's cocktail lounge "Service with Charm" (principal item: nylon-gowned waitresses picked for looks, height [5'6"] and underpinning) had worked like a charm, said New York General Manager Gilbert Johnson. It had more than doubled liquor sales in eleven hotels and will be extended to all the rest with lounges...
...transaction has been shrouded in secrecy, and few details are even now available on the renovations already underway. Presumably the restaurant chain will construct something similar to its typical edifices, adapted to catch University trade...
...project itself has two sides. It calls for the creation of a 27-foot channel that will allow ocean-going vessels to steam from the Atlantic to any of the ports on the Great Lakes. The Seaway's second feature is a power-producing chain of dams on the St. Lawrence which would provide locks for navigation. As now conceived, the entire enterprise is estimated at $720,000,000, although opponents claim that expenses would run much higher...
...later with a feather in his hat and a lamp on his noggin, having completely encircled the globe. In Shanghai, Powell crosses paths with Signe Hasso, in company with a young Chinese girl who later turns out to be older than she looks and ringleader of the entire dope chain. After a quick hop to Egypt and a climb up a precipitous Red Sea cliff, he discovers what he is looking for, a freshly harvested poppy field disguised as a rose plantation. And from there he follows the raw opium across the Atlantic, finally closing in on the whole racket...